Friday, 26 October 2012

Stuff and Business

Yesterday I did away with busy-ness, but what came up was that there seems to be some-thing every day? Some-thing to do... Some-thing to achieve.. I cannot include zazen in that, because zazen is being, even when it feels like doing... Of more value inZen... there needs to be nothing. No thing. Drop stuff. Notice... There may be some resistance to just being in no space experiencing no-thing. But we can be gilling life with a sense of Self, not stuff. I may feel that I need my stuff, but more correctly the mind wants my stuff and doesn't need it at all. How wily the mind can be in its addiction to stuff! Solid stuff of illusion!

About Me

If I was to make a statement about my life, it would be.... My life is about Zen or even more specific, life IS Zen.

When people hear that statement they tend to think of me as
a person who constantly meditates, day after day in pursuit of spiritual
perfection, or spiritual realization. But nothing could be further from the
truth.

Whilst it is true that Zen can be the Way of religion, for instance Zen Buddhism, Zen can be applied to anything in life, and I have a
quite a few strong interests in life. I have been a therapist for the past 30
years. Around 25 years ago, I got interested in Zen and it transformed the way I
worked. It is a matter of focus. Through meditation, I developed a mindfulness, and through this mindfulness, I recognized that there is
only now, and if I took care of the "now" by focusing 100% on each
experience and task I worked on, the future worked out the way it was meant to work out.

I am semi-retired from my therapy work now and have found a love of writing. My latest writing venture is about Wales, my homeland.